Remittance corridor · World Bank RPW · 2025Q3
Thailand → Lao PDR
Average cost sits in the upper fleet tercile at 11.5% on this Thailand → Lao PDR route - senders pay more than typical RPW-tracked corridors.
- 11.5%
- Average cost
- 2.7%
- Cheapest · Bangkok Bank via Western Union
- 10
- Providers tracked
How the 11.5% average cost breaks down
World Bank RPW splits total remittance cost into the provider's transaction fee and the exchange-rate margin applied to the transfer. Same 2025Q3 figures as the detail table below.
Corridor-cost tercile vs fleet
Thailand → Lao PDR posts 11.5% average cost, above the fleet upper tercile (~6.6%), ranking #307 of 348. Cheapest tracked floor: 2.7% via Bangkok Bank via Western Union.
- #307 of 348
- cheapest-cost corpus rank
- 11.5%
- average cost of a $200 transfer
- +4.2pp
- vs the 7.3% average of 348 corridors
- +8.5pp
- gap to the UN 3% target
Compared against the 348 corridors in the 2025Q3 release, not a generic headline figure.
Based on average cost, delivery speed, FX margin, provider competition, and cost trend from World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide data, benchmarked against all 348 tracked corridors - not a quote or a prediction of what you will pay.
What changed
World Bank RPW release record: 2025Q1 to 2025Q3
- Average transfer cost changed from 11.84% to 11.49% (-0.35 percentage points).
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Where this corridor sits by provider panel size
Thailand → Lao PDR has 10 World Bank RPW providers among 377 tracked corridors (inventory signal, not a cost-quality ranking). Orthogonal to the cost comparison below.
Thailand → Lao PDR vs all corridors by provider count
Where this corridor's RPW provider panel sits among every tracked route
10 102nd of 377 higher than 275 of 377 corridors
Corridors, banded by RPW provider inventory
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Source World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide · 2026-08-10
How Thailand → Lao PDR compares
Average cost of a $200 transfer, percent, lower is cheaper
11.49% average - 8.5pp above target
Cost trend: Thailand → Lao PDR
Average and cheapest cost of a $200 transfer over time, percent
Sending Country
Nearby Corridors from Thailand
Thailand sends through 6 corridors we track. Comparing them against the Thailand → Lao PDR route shows whether this destination is cheap or expensive relative to that country's other outbound options.
World Bank RPW fee spread
Release 2025Q3 TH→LA
11.5% avg · 2.7% floor · 8.75pp spread on $200
- AVG 11.5%
- CHEAP 2.7%
- SPREAD 8.75pp
- SDG +8.5pp
- RANK #307 of 348
- REL 2025Q3
- PANEL 10
Cross-sender cost peers
Fee spread manifest for Thailand → Lao PDR: entity-varying RPW stamps plus cross-sender ABS(avg_cost) peers from the current release. Compare corridors side-by-side →
High transfer cost on Thailand → Lao PDR
World Bank RPW prices Thailand → Lao PDR at 11.49% (2025Q3) - above the fleet upper tercile (~6.6%). Senders here pay more than typical tracked corridors, 5.1 pp above the ~6.4% global average.
That cheapest figure comes from the World Bank's mystery-shopping survey: trained researchers pose as customers and obtain real quotes for a standardized $200 transfer, across the 10 banks, money transfer operators, post offices and mobile-money providers RPW tracks on this corridor. It is a snapshot from that survey quarter, not a live guarantee -- confirm the current rate directly with the provider before sending.
Costs here have eased 0.35 percentage points over the tracked period, a real if modest gain for senders as competition increased. Across 39 quarters on record, average cost ranged 11.2%–16.3%, with 0 quarters at or under the UN 3% target. It sits 8.5 pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target.
About Thailand → Lao PDR data
PlainRemit compares international money-transfer costs across tracked corridors so you can see which routes and providers charge the least before you send money abroad. This corridor's figures are computed directly from the World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) quarterly survey, a mystery-shopping panel of actual transfer quotes for a standardized $200 transfer.
Average 11.49%; cheapest observed 2.74% via Bangkok Bank via Western Union; 10 providers tracked across 39 RPW quarters; vintage 2026-08-10.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to send money from Thailand to Lao PDR?
Average 11.49% of the transfer amount (World Bank RPW, 2025Q3) - upper fleet tercile (above ~6.6%). Cheapest observed: 2.74% via Bangkok Bank via Western Union.
What is the cheapest way to send money from Thailand to Lao PDR?
Lowest RPW survey quote: 2.74% (Bangkok Bank via Western Union). Panel is high-tercile with 10 providers tracked.
Is the Thailand to Lao PDR corridor meeting the UN SDG cost target?
Not yet: 11.5% is 8.5pp above the UN SDG 10.c 3% target and in the upper fleet cost tercile.
Where does Thailand → Lao PDR sit among tracked remittance corridors?
According to World Bank Remittance Prices Worldwide average cost among 348 tracked corridors on PlainRemit, Thailand → Lao PDR ranks #307 of 348 (cheapest = #1). Ordinal uses latest_avg_cost ASC matching /rankings/cheapest. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.